Interests, Circumscribed/All Absorbing

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Mottron, L., Soulières, I., & Dawson, M. (2021). Interests, Circumscribed/All Absorbing. Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2511-2516. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91280-6_1734

Publication date: 1 Jan 2021 Added to AutiHub: 4 Oct 2026 Type: Other Article language: English
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3
Publication authors identified as autistic
1 / 3 (33.3%)
  1. Laurent Mottron
  2. Isabelle Soulières
  3. Michelle Dawson *

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Cited references
35
With a DOI
31
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
3
3 / 35 (8.6%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
4 / 35 (11.4%)
References with detected author names
33 / 35 (94.3%)
Without detected author names
2
Without a structured title
3
Without a stable identifier
3
References with raw author names still to review
1
References with external metadata lookup issues
0
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Author names detected in the cited bibliography
112
From DOI or external metadata
112
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
1
41 / 112 (36.6%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 71 / 112 (63.4%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
3 / 112 (2.7%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 3 / 41 (7.3%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 1 / 96 (1.0%).
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